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Austria bans Monsanto’s GE maize

Greenpeace calls on UN biosafety conference to make: “genetic polluters pay”

09 May 2008

From 12-16 May, governments from around the world will gather in Bonn, Germany to hammer out the final details of global liability and redress measures for damage caused by genetically engineered (GE) organisms. Greenpeace will attend the 4th meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (1), telling governments “GE polluters must pay for the damage their crops wreak on the environment, on farmers, and on human health.”

Urgent changes needed in global farming practices

15 April 2008

Greenpeace welcomed the publication today of the first assessment of global agriculture as an historic opportunity to replace destructive chemical-intensive agriculture with methods that work with nature not against it.

Greenpeace parody highlights conflict within Commission between industry profits and science

28 November 2007

Greenpeace is today staging a parody protest outside the EU Commission’s Berlaymont headquarters, posing as lobbyists for companies that produce genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and are trying to get them approved for sale and planting in Europe.

Greenpeace urges France to ban GE crops and calls on European governments to follow suit

23 October 2007

Greenpeace activists today hung a 12 by 3 metre banner reading “Ban GMO’s NOW” on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris urging the French government to ban genetically modified organisms. The government is expected to decide in the next few days on the future regulation of genetically modified, or genetically engineered, crops.